Arpeggio and the Baby Bunnies

Thursday, May 9, 2013

April ends......let May begin!

April apparently was the lull before the storm. I finished NaPoWriMo though and I’m exceptionally proud of myself for that at least!

May has brought the end of my daughter’s sophomore year of college and with it a final project that had us up until anywhere between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. for an entire week. No, I didn’t help her with it per se, I just didn’t want to leave her downstairs alone working by herself and stressing out. She stressed out anyway, but last night we all went out to Fridays for a celebratory dinner. She’s officially a junior now. Can’t believe the time went by so fast, but I can’t believe it’s almost my birthday AGAIN either. Don’t ask which one, because I’m not sure I’m willing to tell anymore, and that my dears says a lot. Age IS a state of mind, but my mind isn’t quite ready to wrap around this one, no matter that I feel about 20 most of the time.

May has also brought my very first root canal. I wasn’t worried about it, despite my husband’s fear on my behalf. (He is terrified of dentists) I have a pretty high pain tolerance so the only part I was dreading was the xrays which make me attempt to puke my guts up every single time. They scheduled me for an hour and a half and three hours later I was on my way home. In a fashion that is true to me, I had to REDO the only part I was dreading not once, or twice, or even three times. I had to redo xrays FOUR times because their computer system upgrade over the weekend had apparently done something odd to the xray software. Yay me. So after three hours in the chair, I made my way home with a filling and four fewer roots than I went in with, along with a nice little bottle of Loritab.

The dentist said it was going to hurt like a bear for two to three days. I think he was trying to prepare me just in case. I had a small amount of pain the night of the procedure and went ahead and took the pain pills that night and about half of the following day since I wasn’t sure if it just didn’t hurt or if the pain pills were keeping the pain at bay. I’m pretty sure it didn’t hurt, but I had a lovely day of drug induced coma the day following and am now back to myself just in time to begin summer vacation with my kiddo.

Next week is our self proclaimed “cupcake week”. Another celebration for the end of her sophomore year of college. She’s expressed an interest in dropping out of school and starting a cupcakery. Ha. Any parents out there know how that conversation ended.

She’s okay with school, just had a trying year and hopefully the summer will rejuvenate her for the next two years at which time if she still wants she’ll have my blessing to try to start her cupcakery. So here’s the list of our cupcake agenda. Anyone have any ideas for a new, or interesting cupcake to add to the list?